Magic Sing
ni Francis Vincent Co
Sa kwarto’y nagpasukan,
Mikropono’y hinawakan,
Simulan n’ang kasiyahan.
Magic Sing, nagpasiklaban!
FTW! haha
“We are victims of NOT LOVE but THESIS!” (Glich, 2008) Where is the paper Boboy is looking for a while ago? Boboyco: “Nasan na ang papel?” =D I guess here lies the answer to the mysterious missing paper…
“I thought that my phone was just ok, but it was not.”
Sometime in June or July 2007, I was looking for a new phone since my Nokia 3230 will be two years old by August that year. My two year contract with Smart is about expire again since I got the line in 2003. So, it is supposed to be my third phone from the plan.
I did not get the phone in August. Why? Money matters. So, I had to have my hallucinating Nokia 3230 operated again, for the nth time. That unit was not that though since it had undergone several servicing and fixing, during warranty period and imagine, one day after warranty expired!
Going back, I requested the phone from Smart Wireless Center in Festival Supermall, Filinvest Corporate City sometime in October. They told me that I can get it, hopefully, within two to three weeks. So, good bye. My birthday passed but none came. Smart texted me and told me if I was interested in other phones, I told them, not at all.
More weeks passed. Christmas came but no one texted nor called. And after New Year, at least, they finally informed me that I can pick up the much delayed Nokia E61i.
Why am I again writing this? Not about Smart nor because of my old cellphone, but because of my increasing utility on Nokia E61i. Utility, I mean, as relative satisfaction from or desirability of consumption of goods.
Some of the milestones of my phone:
All these running at my 200 MB MicroSD which was initially included.
What else can I ask? In few months time, I will be buying a MicroSD with higher storage capacity, probably 2 GB or more (if still compatible).
All along, I thought that I made a mediocre decision in choosing the phone. All along, I thought that there were other better phones. But, all along, it was all within that boxed phone! A tremendous power which I discovered not so long ago.
This phone is absolutely an avant-garde!
My rating 10 out of 10!
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I used GSMArena’s comparative feature to evaluate which phone suites me. Check out E61i’s full specification and review.
Rockwell Center, Makati. I consider this as one of my “homes”. When I say home, it does not necessarily mean a house but more of where I stayed for quite some time - particularly during high school. During my four years of stay at Makati Science High School, I have been seeing a wonderful angle of the towers at Rockwell especially during Christmas Season. With some of my friends, I lie down on our cemented quadrangle and enjoy magnificent view with Rizal Tower spotlighted.
It’s now more than three years since I last lie on our school quadrangle at night, and now, the future generations of Makati scholars will no longer experience those magnificent and sometimes romantic vista. It all takes 200+ million pesos from Rockwell for the youthful 10 year old four-storey building and the adjacent Poblacion Market to be part of the emerging cosmopolitan.
In scientific terms, a black hole can suck up objects near it. And thus, the sucking of Rockwell began!
As the city government of Makati started the construction of the alleged 10-storey building which will tower along Kalayaan Avenue, within three years or so, I will be missing the view totally. Soon, it will be gone for good. But good news for Makati Science peeps, you’ll be just a stone’s throw from the yet larger and more promising Bonifacio Global City (although Taguig but once part of Makati). And my last comment - ten storeys? The city government is really making a statement.
The picture above is from the web, for obvious reasons. On the foot of the circular Rizal Tower, on the right side is Makati Science. FTW! :D haha.
photo from lainegallery
I have read Black and White Movement blog and I want to share this post.
Yesterday, April 10, Microsoft launched their new wave of technologies in the Philippines using their global theme, “Heroes happen here.”
I can’t help but think how inappropriate the theme is for our country.
After reading Fr. Intengan’s ZTE Primer document, I find it hard to imagine how heroes can ever happen in this country. In the guise of shedding light on the controversial deal, Fr. Intengan suggests 3 things:
1) That Jun Lozada lied when he claimed he was abducted; this, of course, assumes that the government account of the incident is true
2) That Jun Lozada’s and the other whistleblowers’ testimonies are all hearsay and therefore have no value
3) That the Senate hearings should now be stopped and charges in court should be filed instead.
Under ordinary times, Intengan’s primer might resonate among peace-loving and decent people. But when you have a president embroiled in serious charges of corruption and cheating, and who uses stonewalling, lying and deceit to respond to these charges, it takes an extraordinary leap of faith or supreme naivete to expect relief from a dysfunctional judicial system.
I have 3 simple questions for Fr. Intengan: If the First Gentleman threatened you by shouting in your face “Back off”, will you have the courage to make it public, considering that he is the husband of the most powerful person in the country? Will you file charges of grave threat in a court of law? Or will you wait for a signed confession by FG or affidavits by others present during the incident attesting to the truth of your charges before filing a case in court?
Incidentally, the ZTE Primer was distributed to students of Fr. Intengan’s class on Sexual Ethics at Ateneo some time in March. During the class, Intengan declared that Lozada was part of a destabilization plot and his kidnapping was a hoax. He also played the wiretapped conversation between Jun Lozada and Joey de Venecia. And to think that Intengan advocates the rule of law in his primer (see the last paragraph of the attached primer).
What saddens me is the fact that there are actually some people who believe Intengan. And for what reasons? Because Jun Lozada is always smiling when on TV? Because he seems to be enjoying the limelight and his newfound celebrity status? Because he is going around the country to share his story? Because he has gone beyond the Probinsiyanong Intsik image that has endeared him to the people?
Because of these, you are all too willing to gloss over the truth he has revealed and the heroic sacrifice he and others before him had to go through as the price for the truth.
And yet, we are quite liberal in making heroes of other people with less than noble purposes.
We reluctantly accepted Chavit Singson as a hero, because he conveniently supported our desire to rid our nation of an immoral president. But we cannot accept Jun as a hero, because we’re not ready to rid our nation of an amoral president. Why? Because GMA’s successor could be worse. Because the economy is doing well, at least on paper. Because 2010 is just around the corner. Why can’t we just wait? And these, even if we believe that she probably cheated, that she and FG are probably involved in corruption, and that she and her cabinet members have lied brazenly to cover up the truth.
We routinely make a hero of taxi drivers who return oodles of money left by passengers in their cabs. It is the most unnatural thing to do in this country, and is therefore considered heroic. But we cannot make Jun a hero for telling the truth at heroic costs, even though that too has become the most unnatural thing to do in this country. Why? Because it might lead to a regime change. Because GMA’s successor could be worse. Because…
We proudly call our OFWs our modern-day heroes for their heroic sacrifices, although I have yet to hear an OFW say, “I will work abroad so I can help make the country better”. For the most part, they do so for the survival of their family. But we cannot proudly call Jun a hero, even though the easiest thing for him to do for the survival of his family was to keep silent. And yet he spoke the truth, precisely to do his share in making this country a little better. Why can’t we make Jun a hero? Because the country may not end up getting better. Because GMA’s successor could be worse. Because…
We lavishly praise Pacquiao to be our hero, for indeed he gives pride to our country every time he wins. But he trains and fights hard to win, mostly for the prize money (that’s what professionals do), and reaping pride for the country is an incidental, though happy, consequence for our nation. But we cannot praise Jun, not even scantily, to be our hero, even though he inspired pride for our country amongst the youth for rejecting the prize money offered him in exchange for his silence. Why? Because it’s possible we may not be proud of what happens after a regime change. Because GMA’s successor could be worse Because…
I share with you Jun’s reflections 2 months after he came out (see attached document below) so you might understand a little better the suffering he continues to go through as the cost of doing the right thing. I echo Jun’s challenge: before you judge him, you should ask yourself – “What have I done for the country?”
If you say you contribute to the well-being of this nation by, first, being a good provider for your family, and then, by contributing to the community through Gawad Kalinga and other civic projects – that’s well and good. And you might even add, let’s not get involved with politics or anything that might imperil the perceived stability of our government.
Jun, too, could have done the same thing – avoid the Senate at all cost so he can continue to be a good provider for his family, so he can help the underprivileged through his work at PhilForest, and so he might not shake the perceived stability of our government. That would have been well and good. But he decided to go beyond what is good. He decided to do what is right by exposing the evil and demanding accountability, even if it meant instability to his life, to wake up a people in stupor – ready to accept evil, thinking that doing good will drown out the evil.
And so I ask the final question – If you were in Jun’s place, would you have done good or right?
The advertising application of Microsoft’s launch theme is quite interesting. “Heroes happen here” is usually followed by a pair of curly brackets like this { }. Visually, the brackets are used to frame an ordinary person, to single him out of a crowd. The message is simple: ordinary people can do extraordinary things when equipped with the right tools (of course, from Microsoft).
That can very well apply to our times. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things, propelled by the right heart and mindset – to do, not just what is good, but what is right. And it starts with you and me.
Are you ready to put your name inside the curly brackets?
Heroes happen here { }
God bless,
enteng
Reposted based on CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION-NODERIVS 2.5 LICENSE.From Black and White Movement Blog
I’m back to Jester’s house. We’re doing thesis once again. We don’t have summer! Haay! :(
We have a summer, no vacation! :))
